On Monday, February 4th, Symantec and morethan 40 security software technologists and anti-malware testersannounced the first steps in creating the Anti-Malware TestingStandards Organization, or AMTSO. It’s been an interesting road to get here so I thought it would be interesting to chronicle a bit of the back story here.
Last May in Reykjavik, Iceland I gave a presentation on a new, morerelevant, form of anti-malware testing called "dynamic testing"(http://www.slideshare.net/frisksoftware/active-tes...). Thiswas borne out of the fact that even though our security suitescontained numerous protection technologies, only one – static filescanning – was being evaluated in tests. While static file scanning iscertainly an important part of a security suite, taking...
